This morning, DDoSecrets published an exciting new dataset: Filesystem images of the partitions from an in-use Flock ALPR camera. 404 Media and Wired published a joint investigation into it. I downloaded the dataset and am now thoroughly nerd-sniped. Hackers from a collective called stegan0gram collected the data. “Why

Despite being a relatively recent build, the Flock camera was running Android 8.1. This version of Android was released in 2017, and officially stopped getting support from Google in 2021 (see the Android end-of-life page for more info). And despite Google publishing security fixes for Android 8.1 until 2021, the Android patch level is 2018-06-05. This camera is missing Android security updates for the last eight years.

  • Pope-King Joe@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    2 days ago

    Android 8.1. That is just. Wow.

    And hardcoded API keys? Bro seriously? This is a big “security” company and they’re making baby’s first programming mistake?

    I have no words.

    • schmorp@slrpnk.net
      6·
      2 days ago

      I’m not a dev by far but I read ‘hardcoded credentials’, was going to scroll on as I do, stopped, made a weird face and then laughed out loud for quite a while. Security, yeah. It’s at same time strange, really funny and very sad that words have lost all meaning. We’re living in full doublespeak times.